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Updated Jan 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)

Was asked questions on data structures basically. Trees, linked lists, circular linked lists. How to identify repeat elements in a circular linked list. How to identify if the linked list was circular.

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How do u identify if a linked list is a circular linked list or not?

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)

1st round interview. Motivation, why BB? Why Software developer. brain teaser: about 5 questions.
how many trailing zeros are there in 100!
How to identify a bottle of poison pills among 4 normal ones? the poison pills weights 10% less than normal pills

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How to identify a bottle of poison pills among 4 normal ones? the poison pills weights 10% less than normal pills

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2010 in Tokyo (Japan) (took 2 days)

Applied to a summer intern position at Information Systems/Operation department at Tokyo Office.
I was mainly asked about my educational background, including bachelor's thesis and current research project in my graduate school.

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Are you interested in this internal information systems position?

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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Interviewed May 2010 in New York, NY (took 2+ weeks)

They first asked me to take up a programming interview and then a phone interview and then an onsite interview.
They asked me on string reversal with only letters of a word reversed in a sentence.

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How do you reverse a string containing many sentences? The constraint is that you should only reverse letters of a word and not the words in the sentence.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Mar 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)

I have applied via careers.bloomberg.com website. After CV screening I had a phone interview. Questions were very basic: difference between array and list, what is polymorhpism, difference between C++ and Java. Interviewer claimed that methods in Java are not virtual unless you explicitly use virtual modifier (!). 30 minutes later I received an e-mail with invitation for in-house interview. In London I had one 2:1 interview, questions covered data structures, memory management in Linux (I had linux kernel development exp in my resume), some brain teasers.

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Describe function invocation protocol in C (registers, stack, order of args)

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 3 weeks)

I got the information about the company from college and apply online - both college career website and the company's. 3 weeks later, I was asked to take an online programming test, I choose to take C++ test.(You have 4 options, C, C++, Java, and C#). Really difficult, for only 3 minutes for each question with 5 options to select. 20 in all. But I think I could have done much better if I had knew how the test would be like. Luck is an important part.

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What function can be used to display base, eg. hex, in C++ and what's the format of it?

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)

Seemed like a nice office when you come in - free food and drinks in the kitchen as soon as you enter the building, and a nice modern office space in which the interview took place.

Interview was very technical, as applying for a technology position. Few competency questions, went over the CV a little, but soon came on to the programming questions on C, even though main language is Java.